Eurorail Trains? Night Trains?

I am traveling from Amsterdam down to south of Spain. (Not all in one trip.)



Amsterdam - Bourdeux

Bourdeux - Basque Country

Basque Country - Madrid

Madrid - Seville

Seville - Barcelona

Barcelona - Nice

Nice - Paris

Paris - Belgium

Belgium - Amsterdam



Which trains can be night trains? And how do night trains work?

Thanks so much!! I am going with my two younger brothers and have never been to Europe (just asia and india)Eurorail Trains? Night Trains?
For rail travel times and durations I often use the German rail planner in English:

http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.e鈥?/a>



I would say, do not take the travel overnight unless it is at least 8 hours, 10 is better, and the night journey does not have changes after 10 PM or before 6 AM.



I have checked several of the longer trips in your list and so far only the next might be good for overnight travel, Sevilla-Barcelona and Barcelona-Nice.

Nice-Paris takes just over 5 hours during the day, more than 11 during the night. I do not think that is a good one for overnight, and the same goes for others that have an overnight connection as well as a day train or connection.



Do check for the day of the week you want to travel, sometimes night trains only run certain nights, not every day.

And where couchettes, berths in a compartment in the train, are better than sitting up, you will most likely not get a good night sleep in them. So restrict overnight travel to only those parts where day travel would eat much more time.

If you plan on sitting through the night, do not plan any where you can take a train during the day.



Your travels require several high speed trains to work efficiently, and/or overnight trains. You do realize that you need to make reservation and often pay surcharges for those trains?



With the German planner you can select 'all without ICE' which will give you trains that do not require to pay high speed surcharges, but do check for the reservation icon, some trains, almost always the night trains, have compulsary reservation.Eurorail Trains? Night Trains?
Information on train travel to the Netherlands: http://www.seat61.com/Netherlands.htm



And Spain: http://seat61.com/Spain.htm



These pages, although written for travellers originating in London, contain a wealth of information about train travel in Europe.



There's an overnight trainhotel from Paris to Madrid and Paris to Barcelona. There's also a EuroNight sleeper train from Amsterdam to Vienna.



Here's a map of the French rail network that might be helpful: http://www.bueker.net/trainspotting/map.鈥?/a>

More info on train travel in France: http://seat61.com/France-trains.htm



More info on City Night Line sleepers: http://www.seat61.com/citynightline.htm



There are also some sleeper trains within France (for example Nice-Paris) called "Corail Lunea". See http://seat61.com/France-trains.htm#What鈥?/a> and http://www.sncf.co.uk/coraill.asp .





Hope this helps!

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